In my experience, Windows only fucks-up your Linux bootloader if they both share the same EFI System Partition. Keeping them separate fixes the issue. Though, this means that you’ll have to install Windows first, since it will automatically pick your Linux ESP otherwise.

I am not using them myself but I have heard that some ThinkPads support Libreboot. Also, System76 sells laptops with Coreboot.

I don’t think choosing a particular Linux distro matters with them.

That was it! I messed around with the port-forward settings with no luck in the past. Disabling the “Masquerade” option in the firewall settings for the server’s VLAN worked. Thanks a bunch.

Both.

Thanks. I have been lurking ever since Reddit’s third-party client shenanigans, actually. 😅

The Android client has a recurring bug where the connection to the Tailnet and the DNS break about half the time when switching between Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Plus, I can’t use it and a VPN at the same time.

I can remedy that by toggling the connection off and on from the notifications panel, but it still keeps breaking with stuff that use a persistent connection, like ntfy (a UnifiedPush server).

Sorry. I (and probably others here as well) have never of it before. I thought it was a Lemmy client or server, due to the community you posted in.

That’s what I meant by the non-profit motive. Reddit and Discord sell those data for more profit.

Lemmy (or Fediverse) is not private at all.

Its main appeal (at least for me) is the non-profit motive and censorship resistance, and that you can also browse it anonymously.

If you are getting IP blocked by your instance (server you are connected to), just choose another one.

There really isn’t that much when it comes to customization. Your reverse proxy needs to support websockets and I use Caddy for that.

I also host ntfy on the same server and FMD had problems sending requests to it. All I had to do was to allow FMD container to send requests to the host machine by adding ntfy.mydomain.com:host-gateway Docker host mapping to it.

Nope

I am self-hosting FMD and it works pretty well

Since you have mentioned that you have an RX 9070–which is a relatively new card, you should stay away from LTS distros like Ubuntu LTS and OpenSUSE Leap. Those have older kernels and Mesa which will noticeably impact your graphics experience.

For GUI-based app installation: pretty much all desktop environments have an app for it (e.g. Discover on KDE Plasma). Use can use them install software packaged by your distro, or other sources such as flatpak/Flathub. As mentioned by others, there are some independent storefronts such as Bazaar as well.

For the most part, yeah

Funny, I just saw the video of Mental Outlaw talking about TuxMate. How do you think your project compares to this?

Glad to hear that!

A bit of Arch Wiki and Podman’s own documentation.

I usually set :Z at the end of volume mounts and it fixes the permission issues. Now that I think about it, all my Quadlets are using this option.

Ivy Wallet. While it is unmaintained as of recently, it is pretty much feature-complete and I really like its UI.

Yeah, I have been using it like that for a while. It is just a single environment variable.

Wasn’t Signal only able to disclose first and last timestamps when a user has connected to their servers when receiving legal requests? I just assumed their protocol made it so that they can’t do it, or they theoretically can but don’t store such logs.

1. Linux is intentionally made to be modular and using the terminal is pretty much the only standard way to do things across many distributions.

I highly suggest you stop avoiding it because it will most likely be faster and easier to do something (i.e. system-level changes) with it than not.

2. If you want a hard-to-fuck-up distro, I think Atomic (at least that’s what Fedora calls them) distros are the best.

Similar to smartphones or MacOS, entire OS is a singular image that is also updated all at once. Core parts of the filesystem is also read-only, meaning it is pretty much impossible to mess things up if you don’t mean to do so deliberately.

The best in this regard are from uBlue project: Bazzite (most popular), Bluefin, Aurora, etc. While Bazzite is intended for gaming (things like Steam are pre-installed), the other are for general use. Bluefin uses GNOME desktop, while Aurora has KDE Plasma desktop environment. Look up their visuals and choose whichever one you like. I prefer Aurora because KDE Plasma is often much more familiar to Windows users.

3. uBlue distros don’t require a password for system updates (they happen automatically in the background) and so do installing/updating programs.